College Prep

College Prep provides academic support, college advisement, enrichment opportunities, and socio-emotional counseling throughout high school as students transition into higher education.

Curriculum

To best serve its students, College Prep offers the following:

Tutoring

Academic skills assessments, coaching, and workshops

College fair and on-site college representative visits

College tours

Individualized college counseling

College and scholarship essay writing workshops

Mock college admissions interviews

Financial aid workshops and counseling

Scholarship advisement

SAT/ACT prep classes

Circle Meetings (in-school Buffalo Prep community meetings)

Mentoring

Career exploration and development

Leadership development

Student-designed social events

In addition to nurturing academic success, college readiness, and career awareness, College Prep also encourages students and their families to think strategically about the college admissions process by helping students assess their skills and accomplishments and establish goals aligned with their college and career aspirations. The result is an individualized college admissions action plan that ends with college acceptances.

100% of Buffalo Prep graduates are accepted to college.

Requirements

In order to participate in College Prep, students must have either completed the High School Prep program, received a John R. Oishei Scholarship or a Cullen Foundation Scholarship, or be enrolled in a Buffalo Prep partner high school and be identified as eligible for the Rising to Distinction (RTD) program.

The RTD program was established in response to the need for additional academic support and college readiness preparation for economically disadvantaged students in Buffalo Prep’s partner high schools. To help ensure the success of these students, Buffalo Prep, in partnership with the John R. Oishei Foundation, developed the RTD program, which launched in 2000 with the goal of making the services and community of Buffalo Prep available to Oishei scholars and other eligible students.

Today, in collaboration with Buffalo Prep’s partner high schools, the RTD program provides economically disadvantaged high school students and their families with a wide array of support and opportunities, including tutorial services and academic skills coaching, college and financial aid advisement, enrichment activities, and socio-emotional counseling, so that RTD students can meet their academic goals and gain acceptance to college.

College Prep staff

Marcus Deveso
College Prep Director

David Johnson
Director of College Counseling Services

David Kash
Guidance Counselor, College Prep Tutor, and High School Prep Special Advisor